Direction Over AccelerationWhen Execution Becomes Cheap, Strategic Choice Is the Ultimate Competitive AdvantageAI conversations have a natural starting point: What can this technology do?It is an understandable question. Every few weeks, the answer gets larger. Models can write, analyze, code, search, reason, generate images, operate software, and increasingly take autonomous action rather than merely recommend it. Each…
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Pricing the Two Costs of AI DelegationThe Authority You Grant and the Capability You SurrenderIn the adoption of almost every useful technology, there comes a quiet turning point when the fundamental question shifts from whether the system can do the work to whether it should be allowed to do it. Early on, you ask basic capability questions: can…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place its earlier stay in People Not Politicians v. Onder, preserving the status quo in a closely watched fight over which Missouri congressional map will govern the 2026 election cycle. While the docket entry is procedural, the practical effect is significant: the Court is continuing to block lower-court action that could have…
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Shadow AI and the Proof ProblemMaking AI Output Look Finished Is Easy. Proving It’s Right Is the Hard Part.There is a familiar, weary conversation happening inside organizations about shadow AI: Which tools are allowed? What data can employees upload? What security controls should IT impose?Those are legitimate governance questions, but they miss the deeper threat. Suppose you solve…
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The End of the Standardization BargainDecoupling Scale from Uniformity in the Age of AIFor most of the last century, sameness was the price of scale: if you wanted to deliver a product or service to thousands of people, you had to standardize it. Litigators didn’t draft custom interrogatories or complaints from scratch for routine disputes. They used master…
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The Semantic Anchor: You Can Own All Your Data and Still Lose What It MeansYour organization can own every document, database, and piece of intellectual property it has ever created and still lose something far more difficult to reconstruct: namely, what all of it means. If you need a specific AI model or vendor platform to recover that…
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The Third Circuit has delivered one of the most important appellate rulings yet at the intersection of copyright law, legal publishing, and artificial intelligence. In affirming Thomson Reuters’ win against Ross Intelligence, the court left in place a ruling that Ross infringed Westlaw headnotes and could not shield its conduct under fair use.

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Clio today announced that it has acquired Learned Hand, a startup that builds AI exclusively for judges and courts, giving the legal tech company’s newly launched judiciary business an existing product already in use in a number of courthouses.Clio did not disclose the terms of the deal.The acquisition caps a rapid series of events as Clio has moved into…
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Yesterday I noted that th 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but that the opinion was sealed and not viewable by the public.Today, it was revealed that the court has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters on the two…
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